Author: Publisher: Combat Poverty Agency
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
Poverty Today Issue 49 (December 2000/January 2001)
Author: Publisher: Combat Poverty Agency
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
Poverty Today: Index to Issues 28-57 (June 1995-January 2003)
Author: Publisher: Combat Poverty Agency
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Africa's Social and Religious Quest
Author: Randee Ijatuyi-MorphéPublisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 0761862684
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 647
Book Description
This well-crafted book probes the key dimensions of Africa’s existential predicament. It constitutes an intellectual response to a gnawing “African situation”—the starting point for grasping Africa’s social and religious quest. Beyond split explanations of external versus internal factors (e.g., colonization/slavery vs. leadership/cultural values), this study accounts more comprehensively for emergent issues shaping this situation. The situation reflects a gamut of problems in traditional African religion and material culture, which hitherto defines African communality, polities, and destinies vis-à-vis the cosmos and nature. Thus, African religion and communities, each with its own attendant values, do not operate by critical engagement with larger issues of society and civilization, especially those shaped by the advent of (post-) modernity. Rather, they operate via adaptation. The communal drive for natural and social harmony inevitably produces a preservationist view of culture (“leaving things as they are”). This study takes an integrative approach to religion, society, and civilization; eschews dichotomies; and broadly defines and re-signifies life and wholeness as a true end of Africans’ quest today.
Attacking Poverty
Author: Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780195211290
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
At the start of each decade the World Development Report focuses on poverty reduction. The World Development Report, now in its twenty-third edition, proposes an empowerment-security-opportunity framework of action to reduce poverty in the first decades of the twenty-first century. It views poverty as a multidimensional phenonmenon arising out of complex interactions between assets, markets, and institutions. This Report shows how the experience of poverty reduction in the last fifteen years has been remarkably diverse and how this experience has provided useful lessons as well as warnings against simplistic universal policies and interventions. It shows how current global trends present extraordinary opportunities for poverty reduction but also cause extraordinary risks, including growing inequality, marginalization, and social explosions. The World Development Report 2000/2001 explores the challenge of managing these risks in order to make the most of the opportunities for poverty reduction.
Vital Signs 2002
Author: Janet N. AbramovitzPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393323153
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Focuses on the social, economic, and environmental trends that determine the health of people and the planet. Covers mainly the 1990s.
IMF Financial Operations 2014
Author: International Monetary Fund. Finance Dept.Publisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 1484358147
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
IMF Financial Operations 2014 provides a broad introduction to how the IMF fulfills its mission through its financial activities. It covers the financial structure and operations of the IMF and also provides background detail of the financial statements for the IMF’s activities during the most recent financial year. This publication updates a previous report entitled Financial Organization and Operations of the IMF, first published in 1986 and last issued in 2001 (the sixth edition). That 2001 report reflected the seismic shifts in the global economy and in the IMF’s structure and operations that occurred after the fall of the Soviet Union and the various currency and financial crises of the 1990s. This revised and updated report covers more recent developments, including measures taken in response to the global financial crisis of 2007-09 and the institutional reforms aimed at ensuring that the IMF’s governance structure evolves in line with developments in the global economy, as well as reforms to the IMF’s income model.
Standard & Poor's Creditweek
Author: The World Factbook
Author: The World Factbook
Author: United States. Central Intelligence AgencyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Handbook on Poverty + Inequality
Author: Jonathan HaughtonPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821376144
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
For anyone wanting to learn, in practical terms, how to measure, describe, monitor, evaluate, and analyze poverty, this Handbook is the place to start. It is designed to be accessible to people with a university-level background in science or the social sciences. It is an invaluable tool for policy analysts, researchers, college students, and government officials working on policy issues related to poverty and inequality.